[Elecraft] Quiet fans for K3

[Harry Yingst]

I would be lead to believe economics, Most will never be bothered by the noise of the stock fans.

My hearing is a little messed up from being in the Navy and the fan noise added to the background noise. 
So I searched out an replacement, and the replacement fans have now made the radio a pleasure to listen to.

But then again I hear things others don't and not hear things others do.







      From: Brendon Whateley <brendon at whateley.com>
 To: Reflector Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> 
 Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 12:31 PM
 Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Quiet fans for K3
   
So a question for the Elecraft team: Is there a reason you guys don't use
quieter fans straight from the factory.

I had a business partner who hated fan noise in computers, so would always
replace the stock fans with quieter ones (better blade profiles and lower
vibrations) and the cost never seemed to be much more than the stock ones.
Even though I thought the standard fans didn't make noise, the difference
was quite obvious when you ran a pair of machines, one upgraded, the other
not. Lots of people don't care, but some care a lot, if the price is
similar, why not start with the quietest ones?

- Brendon
KK6AYI

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Dave Hachadorian <k6ll.dave at gmail.com>
wrote: